Apple Founder Steve Woz comes to Brazil to Defend Internet & Development Freedom

Apple Inc. Founder Steve Wozniak gave yesterday at Campus Party – a Technology event based in São Paulo that precedes the International Free Software Forum – a speech defending internet freedom.

The lecture, which closes the loop of the fourth edition of the annual event of the geek world, it was inspiring and Wozniak started up a statement which is commonly believed to be anti-Apple. For him, the Internet needs to be completely free for the end user.

The lecture, which was called a “frenzied speech,” lasted about one hour. If, on the one hand, the discomfort from heat and fatigue of campers after more than 100 hours of uninterrupted event were visible, in the other a speech by former Apple founder was an inspiration. “I was like you, just so when I was younger. And I thought: ‘One day I still want to develop my own products,’” he said.

“I’ve always been like that. I never liked to go to a place in which i would have to dress a certain way. I never liked feeling like a group and do the same things everyone else does. With the same thought occurred Apple of course” he said, complementing that the company was idealized as something to launch directions.

With respect to Steve Jobs, Wozniak did not mince words.“We talk occasionally on the phone. But we are definitely not friends.”

The departure from Apple in 1985, he said, happened without drama, although still controversial. “I was an established engineer and Apple did not need me to walk the path that had begun to go. As I had finished my college course I was it,” he said amid laughs, that during the approximately 10 years of Apple, not aimed to any office higher than an engineer.

Today, he says he faithfully believe that the Internet belongs to the user. No country or company has the right to seek regulation over it, as was the master of the tool. To ensure freedom in the network, according to him, it is necessary to protest and fight for truth, for what he perceives as a user right. For Wozniak, the desire to seek new and, mainly, walk on the opposite of most, seems to be the policy of his life. In the lecture, he taught all campers that to start again after a career established and successful is normal. “The important thing is to be happy,” he said to the applause of more than 6000 participants, whose history in the world of technology is just beginning.

Above Source: Terra News
Translation: Google

Campus Party is a social and comercial event focused on young I.T. workers and users.

It is in it’s 4th and serves as a warmup for a a more focused on free software event to come in the middle of the year called Fórum Internacional do Software Livre (International Free Software Forum) - or “FISL” as it is known, that will have it’s 12th edition this year’s June 29 until July 2.

Last Year the Forum united 7511 participants from Brazil and the World, counting with 153 different lectures, including the ones of John Maddog (President of Linux), Scott Chacon (GIT and GIT-Hub) among other well known “figures” from the I.T. world.

The presence of Steve Woz @ Campus Party 2011 shows the sight of the pioneers over “Mac” ‘s world, and a counter-effect on the trials to lock Internet and technology: subject revamped in Brazil after the new Minister of Culture – Ana Buarque de Hollanda – shows signs of removing the ministry support to Creative Commons and Freedom of Information, changing back to a vision of “consumption” instead of “absorption and reutilization” of culture and information, which was lead by the Country’s Ministry in the last 7 years.